Male and female juveniles are now flying well (3rd June)

 Update 3 June pm.

The juvenile female has been located on a high roof near the cathedral and she should be fine now and very unlikely to come to ground. The male is already an accomplished flier so he'll be fine too.

Meanwhile and before you drift away to watch other web cams, can we urge you to make a donation to this project if you have been a regular web cam watcher and commentator?
So far donations have been minimal and the project will not continue unless we get more income which, as explained before, comes almost entirely from kind web cam watchers.

There's a donations tab on the blog home page......

Thanks in advance!


Update 9pm 31 May

After a lot of flying about, the juvenile male finally managed to get back to the platform and get fed.
These birds are much more resilient than we think!

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Thanks in advance.

                         Juvenile male finds it way to a nearby roof before returning to the platform.
                                                             Photo: Ant Pooles                 

Marc Whitlock (DWT) sent this account of today's Watch Point:

On a warm and windy watchpoint today early drama saw the young male peregrine reappear after a short absence. He was spotted shortly after 10am by one of our volunteers on nearby rooftops on Full Street. It later attempted to land on the north side of the tower but then returned to nearby rooftops. There was a lot of wing flapping from its sibling on the nest platform with both parents looking on. The adults both took flights, some lower over Cathedral Green before returning to familiar perches on the tower. During the watchpoint, a buzzard and a red kite flew high over the tower.
Of the 150+ visitors to the watchpoint was a little girl who came on her birthday with her sister following a talk on peregrines at their school recently.

This video shows both juveniles on the platform late this afternoon.

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10.30 am Saturday 31st May
After a long and fruitless search of the cathedral roofs, the young male was found safe and well on the roof of a nearby building soon after. He later flew strongly round the back of the cathedral and will be perching somewhere there. The adult female was in close attendance.

Watch point volunteers will keep a close eye on him this morning and see what happens.

We'll update as and when we have any further news of him.

The project team

This project is managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust but relies heavily on the input of volunteers. Support comes from The Cathedral, Cathedral Quarter and the city council's IT team.